Why Agile Project Management (AgilePM)

Update (11 December 2024):

This article was written in 2020 with Agile Project Management (AgilePM) V2 as baseline. In October 2024, Agile Business Consortium announced the launch of Agile Project Management V3 (AgilePM3). Though parts of the article below are still relevant, the topics covered may not be referring to the latest guidance on Agile Project Management.

Agile Project Management (AgilePM) guidance - published by the Agile Business Consortium - offers a practical and repeatable methodology that achieves an ideal balance between the standards, rigour and visibility required for good project management, and the fast-pace, change and empowerment provided by Agile.

The guidance is supported by accredited training for Agile Project Management Foundation & Agile Project Management Practitioner certifications, with over 130,000 exams sat since 2011.

Agile Project Management (AgilePM) enable change faster, at lower cost and with lower risk, by continually validating project milestones against objectives and developing solutions incrementally. 

A few benefits of Agile Project Management (AgilePM):

• Improve time-to-market and project success rates by encouraging stakeholder involvement, feedback and effective controls.
• Empower project personnel and encourage increased collaboration and ownership.
• Based on the Agile Business Consortium’s Agile Project Framework (established for over 20 years and regularly refreshed).

Agile Project Management (AgilePM) brings together all the elements of a project in an agile content:

• Principles (the behaviours);
• People (roles and responsibilities);
• Process (the life cycle);
• Products (what is produced and when); and
• Practices (timeboxing, modelling, iterative development, prioritization and facilitated workshops).

The Agile Project Management (AgilePM) Handbook is the only source of trainings and certification exams.